A 57-year-old Lewisburg woman fell 30 to 40 feet onto the gravel by the railroad tracks behind a home on West Cedar Street before dawn Monday, Jan. 17. Lewisburg Police Department Officer Dac Burrow responded to the scene along with Emergency Medical Service personnel just after 7 a.m. ... more

Marshall County Circuit Court Judge Robert Crigler handed down sentences on Jan. 5 for the incarceration of people who pleaded guilty in November to charges stemming from burglary and misuse of prescription drugs. They are as follows. Baker has 84 days pre-trial jail credit, and Crigler ordered him to report to jail to start serving his sentence at 7 p.m. Jan. 21. His co-defendant's case is still being adjudicated... more

The state Court of Criminal Appeals has dismissed a Lewisburg man's appeal in a sex case, and upheld two Marshall County Circuit Court judgments in a drug case and a habitual offender's case. The decisions are as follows. After hearing testimony from experts who said Lemay was incapable of understanding a trial or assisting in his own defense, and from people who knew him - testifying he held a job for 20 years and could read, write and do arithmetic - Circuit Court Judge Robert Crigler found Lemay competent to stand trial.. ... more

Lewisburg Police and officers from five other agencies searched a Cornersville Road apartment Sunday and arrested a man on Rutherford County warrants alleging he's been offering juveniles as prostitutes. more

Lewisburg councilmen are ranking their top three nominees for the second cut of applicants to be the next city manager and they're voting during a special session Wednesday in City Hall. more

There will be an empty chair at the school board's table when it meets Tuesday. Delinda "Dee Dee" Owens sent a letter of resignation, dated Jan. 3, to schools director Roy Dukes. A copy was delivered to the county mayor's office Wednesday. "Due to obligations to my family, school and work," Owens says in her letter, "I feel that I am unable to give the kids, teachers, staff, and my constituents the dedication needed."... more

More than 100 additional jobs are anticipated at Ace Bayou factories in Lewisburg, according to a report to city councilmen Tuesday when they unanimously voted for property tax breaks for the growing business. "They've had a presence in Marshall County for 15 years," Industrial Development Director Greg Lowe said. "They've recently purchased the Sanford property and have high expectations that the figure of 100 more jobs will grow and grow."... more

If a Postal Service letter carrier can't get to a mailbox at the end of a driveway because snow was pushed to the post, the delivery isn't required. That's what Lewisburg Postmaster Fran Zeller said Wednesday afternoon when deliveries were returning to normal. Monday, about 85 percent of postal patrons in Marshall County got mail from the Post Office in Lewisburg... more

Us two and him, the musical trio with Chapel Hill roots and a sense of humor, has gone and done it again. With two-thirds of the musicians living in Lewisburg, and 'nother in Tullahoma, they've recorded their fifth CD of original songs. They said something about it at the Veterans Day supper in the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church Family Life Center between Second and Third Avenues North... more

Marshall County's Roads Department is out of road salt and several weeks may pass before more is delivered, according to the superintendent. "They've got a big, long waiting list," Roads Superintendent Jerry Williams said before driving through the south end of the county to inspect highways and back roads... more

Old cell phones may be dropped off at First National Bank, 1190 N. Ellington Pkwy, Lewisburg. Proverbs 12:10 Animal Rescue, a 501(c)(3) charity, will receive a monetary donation for each phone donated. For more information, call 270-0001. Girl Scout Cookies will be sold in Marshall County soon. ... more

Lewisburg Mayor Barbara Woods is asking the city Water and Wastewater Board, on behalf of the City Council, for action on a sewer rate issue that's been festering for months. "I'll be glad to compose a letter on behalf of the council to ask them to do what you want," Woods told the councilmen after an extensive discussion that did not exactly specify the request... more

Arrested on a warrant for rape Arrested and charged with soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor Arrested and charged with filing a false report and possession of drug paraphernalia Arrested and charged with driving under the influence, violation of the implied consent law, and driving on a revoked license (6th offense)... more

The second of three defendants indicted after a 2009 home invasion in Chapel Hill was sentenced last week, after pleading guilty in November. Travis Lankford, 24, of College Grove, was sentenced to a total of 17 years, of which he must serve 30 percent before he is eligible for parole. Thus, with nearly a year of pre-trial jail credit, Lankford could be out of prison in a little over five years... more

A Culleoka man was arrested Wednesday charged with aggravated statutory rape after a 17-year-old girl and her mother told Marshall County Sheriff's Deputy Layne Worsham what happened. Christopher Daniel Roberts, 35, was being held in lieu of $10,000 at noon Thursday. He is due in Marshall County General Sessions Court on Jan. 25... more

Lewisburg Mayor Barbara Woods is asking the city Water and Wastewater Board, on behalf of the City Council, for action on a sewer rate issue that's been festering for months. "I'll be glad to compose a letter on behalf of the council to ask them to do what you want," Woods told the councilmen after an extensive discussion that did not exactly specify the request... more

Members and leaders of churches in Marshall County are invited to the Third Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Ecumenical Celebration Service on Monday night at the Liggett Street Church of God. The program to honor the life and legacy of Dr. King will start at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 17, in the church at 834 Liggett St. Host Pastor Eddie Shirley and Pastor Herbert Johnson, the originator of the program, have invited more than 31 churches to the program... more

Thomas Nelson Publishers, the American Bible Society, the British royal family and others are beginning a year-long commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the first publication of the King James Version of the Bible (a.k.a. the KJV, a.k.a. the Authorized Version), and Christians and non-Christians alike would do well to revisit the landmark publication... more

Lewisburg Mayor Barbara Woods has asked the city's water and wastewater superintendent to facilitate a request from the water utility for a review of sewer use fees by the city council on Feb. 8. more

Marshall County Schools are closed Friday, according to the director of schools who spoke after touring back roads on Thursday afternoon. more